Two deny conning US citizen out of Sh12m in gold racket
Mr Brunoh Otieno Liende and Steve Seth Okute. They are among ten suspects who were arrested over the weekend for allegedly defrauding two Americans Sh66, 696,600 in a fake gold deal.
Two of the ten people arrested over a Sh67 million fake gold scam have been charged at a Nairobi court with defrauding an American woman of Sh12.6 million.
Mr Seth Steve Okute and Mr Bruno Otieno Oliende were charged with obtaining $100,000 (Sh12,613,000) from Ms Marjorie Grant in March 2022 by pretending that they were in position to pay custom duties for 33 kilogrammes of gold shipped from Burkina Faso. They denied the charges.
